Finisterre
Finisterre (Spanish) or Finistère (French) or Fisterra (Galic.), Derived from the Latin finis terrae ('end of the world / of the mainland'), stands for:
People:
- Alejandro Finisterre (1919–2007), Spanish writer and inventor
Music:
- Finisterre (band) , Italian band by Fabio Zuffanti
Geography:
- Fisterra (Galicia) , Spanish municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia
- Fisterra (Comarca) , administrative unit in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia
- Cape Finisterre or Cabo Fisterra , the tip of a peninsula in the municipality of Fisterra
- Finistère , the westernmost department of France in Brittany
- Finisterre Mountains or Finisterre Range, mountain range in northeast Papua New Guinea
Ships:
- Cap Finisterre (ship, 1911) , an express steamer built by Blohm & Voss in 1911 for the Hamburg-Süd
- Cap Finisterre (ship, 1956) , a cargo and refrigerated ship built in 1956 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft for Hamburg-Süd
- Cap Finistère (ship, 2001) , Brittany Ferries ferry
- HMS Finisterre (D55) , a Royal Navy battle-class destroyer
- MS Cap Finisterre (1956) , a ship of the German merchant navy completed on May 16, 1956
Sea battles off Cape Finisterre between the French and British navies:
- First naval battle at Cape Finisterre (1747) , a battle in May 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession
- Second naval battle at Cape Finisterre (1747) , another battle in October of the same year
- Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805) , a battle during the Third Coalition War in 1805
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